"Proof that Islam is the truth'' [15] : Signs of the last days

Assalamaleykum Arahmatullahi va Barakatu, may the peace and blessing of Allah be among all of you & may He guide all of us to the right path & to the truth. Today it's our last & final article of the proof that Islam is the Truth. We've been through many different amazing things. But the last thing we are going to finish with today are some of the signs of the last day. Things that the Prophet Muhammad said that would happen before the end of time and of course the first thing the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam said, the first thing that he said would be the first thing of the signs of the last days is his death & the last day is soon upon us. & that's what the prophet said then 1400 years ago, how close must it be now.

Let's look at some other things the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah's peace & blessings be upon him said in various narrations. First of all the Prophet Muhammad mentioned that amongst the signs of the last day is that you would see the barefooted Bedouins compete with each other in building tall buildings. This is remarkable because I invite anybody to look & go & visit Dubai & Waldabi, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain. These are places where 60 years ago I remember when I was in Kenya and they were complaining how there was no more money coming from Saudi Arabia after 9/11 & so on & so forth. & they were saying well you know 60 years ago we used to send money to Saudi Arabia to help the orphans & the Madrasas there. Now you will find the people who only 60 years ago were barefooted Bedouins competing with each other in who can build the tallest building in the world in fact it's said there's going to be six of the tallest buildings in the world in Dubai in the years to come. This is something the Prophet Muhammad was predicting 1400 years ago. It is truly a sign of the last days.

The Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam also mentioned that the Mosques would become like palaces. And this is the case even though the Prophet Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam ordered simplicity in the houses of Allah the fact is that they've become more & more fantastic & more & more money is being spent on these Mosques with domes & floors & golden domes & floors & everything to match with so much lavish chandeliers, & carpets, like palaces as the Prophet Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam said would happen.

Also the Prophet mentioned that trustworthiness would disappear so much so that the person would be able to say "I know a trustworthy person in such & such town." Are you asking yourself if maybe that is not the case today? Also the Prophet mentioned that there will be increase in killing, the Prophet called it "Hardge" to the extent that the one who is being killed & the one who is killing they don't even know. The one who is being killed doesn't know why he is being killed, the one who is killing doesn't know why he is doing the killing. I think this is describing the condition of some cities today where kids are shooting people. The person has no idea why he was shot, in fact people are being shot merely just to prove themselves or for any type of madness that you can imagine. Not even to mention the massacres of so many people that is taking place due to terrorism whether it is the terrorism of countries or the terrorism of organisations & individuals. We shouldn't really make a difference – it's all terror when women & children & innocents get killed – it's terror by the hands of whoever it is. People do not know why they are killing or why they are being killed to such an extent that it is unimaginable just as the Prophet Muhammad predicted 1400 years ago.

Also the Prophet mentioned that there will be the increase in the use of ribba which means usually interest, credit cards, mortgages, things like that. In fact to the extent that no one would be able to escape the dust of it. Everybody will be affected by it. And this is without doubt the truth of the world economy today, the whole world economy is affected & controlled by banks & the use of interest money even though in Islam it is totally prohibited, even though in Christianity up until the 16th – 17th century ribba was forbidden, in Christendom as well but yet today it is something that controls the world economy to the extent that no one can escape it just as the Prophet Muhammad predicted 1400 years ago.

The Prophet also said that there will be an increase in literacy in fact so many people will be able to read & write that actually knowledge will decrease. Isn't that a type of paradox? More people will read & what do we end up reading most of us we read rubbish, we read rubbish stuff but we can read, but knowledge, especially knowledge of the religion despite of the fact that more people can read, ignorance has become prevailing. And this is what the Prophet Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam said: "That religious knowledge would decrease not by the books disappearing, not by you know knowledge being taken from the minds of the people. No, the knowledge in the sense of the books will be there but the scholars, so that only the ignorant people will remain. And people will ask them for religious verdicts and they will give it even though they are ignorant, and they will misguide themselves & misguide others. Anyone acquainted with the Muslim world today will be familiar with this. And the Prophet mentioned: "The speakers will be many & the scholars will be few." And this is what we can find exactly. There are many speakers, many thinkers, many intellectuals, many people Alhamdullilah giving Davah, maybe not enough people but to scholars they are so few and this is a type of sign of the last day when the scholars will be taken away & this is exactly what we find happening.

Also the Prophet Muhammad SAAS said that there'll be going to be such an increase in musical instruments & Muslims will make it lawful even though it is forbidden, the use of musical instruments it has been forbidden by the Prophet some Muslims people will make it lawful & there are many people who are saying it's allowed even though it is very clearly mentioned in Sahih Al Buhari, the most authentic collection of hadith & this is mentioned here, this hadith where the Prophet predicted that the people will make it lawful even though the Prophet made it unlawful. And it's come true just as the Prophet Muhammad may Allah's peace & blessings be upon him said.

Also he mentioned there'll be an increase in sexual promiscuity even though Islam is a religion that teaches chastity that a man and a woman should confine themselves to marriage. The Prophet said there'll be an increase in sexual promiscuity & I don't think anyone can deny that that is the state of the world today with highly sexualized images & even traditional societies that normally had good traditional moral values. For example like India, even in India for example promiscuity is becoming more & more common, hardly than it ever was before. Even in Muslim countries where the whole idea of sexual promiscuity is so against the teachings of Islam it is unfortunately becoming more & more common, & the Prophet Muhammad said that because of these diseases would appear that people had never heard of before. Isn't that the case? Aids for example, diseases that people had never heard of before will arise due to sexual promiscuity. And this has taken place just as the Prophet Muhammad predicted Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam. He mentioned that women will be naked although they are dressed. I don't think this is a better way of describing the dress of some women today which in all but means is nakedness, with the clothes that are so tight they describe every shape of the body which this technology did not exist to make those type of clothes in the time of the Prophet, yet the Prophet Muhammad is describing how this nakedness among the women will become prevalent.

And also the Prophet mentioned that there will be shouting in the Mosque, something that is prohibited in Islam & it's something I have witnessed myself.

And also the Prophet said the worst & the most ignorant people will become the leaders & really I have to say if we look at some of the world leaders today even at some of the superpowers it seems as if what the Prophet said about the worst & most ignorant people becoming leaders seems to have taken place exactly as the Prophet Muhammad said.

Also he mentioned that a man will obey his wife & disobey his mother, something really contrary to the teachings of Islam. He will rather listen to his friends than listen to his father. And this is something that we have found happening in the Muslim World even though this is so against the teachings of Islam.

Men will wear gold & silk & they will make it lawful even though the Prophet has made it unlawful. People will abandon the religion of Islam for a small worldly gain & keeping on to the religion will be like holding two hot coals. I'm mentioning all of these things & there are many-many more things that the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam mentioned. But these are some of the small signs concerning the events that will take place before the last day. And as we can see these things that I have gone through almost without exception they have come true in a way that is so-so clear & so-so obvious & so-so apparent.

I want to spend a little bit of time talking about some of the authenticated miracles of the Prophet Muhammad, I mean of course the greatest miracle that was given to the prophet Muhammad was the Quran. But there are many authenticated miracles & it is not often known & mentioned that were done through the Prophet Muhammad by the power of God. For example even at the birth of the Prophet Muhammad may Allah's peace & blessings be upon him when he was taken by the witness Halima & she was the only one willing to take him, even though he was an orphan. Because he was an orphan no one was really expecting that they would get any reward & they will get well-paid, but Halima, his witness, & that was the tradition of the Arabs, they used to send their babies out into the desert where it is more healthy to be nursed by the Bedouin women & Halima, she took this responsibility even though she was not really expecting much reward. And from the moment she did this she found that everything changed, even the goats in her tribe started to get fatter, wherever they went there was grass for them to feed, she herself became stronger & more healthy & was producing more milk & as long as the Prophet Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam was with her she found these blessings happen in fact she commented to her husband & to the tribe that surely we had been given a blessed child.

When the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam before he was a Prophet, one of the things that would happen was the stones would speak to him & they would say to him Muhammad you are the Messenger of Allah & this is the type of things that would happen these are some miracles & true & authentic miracles that happened to the Prophet.

As earlier mention today we are talking about the authenticated miracles of the Prophet Muhammad may Allah's peace & blessings be upon him, things that were witnessed by his companions who lived with him & saw these things & recorded them & we have these things until today. And we are only mentioning a few because we don't have too much time we can't go thoroughly into every single one, so we are just mentioning a few of them.

There's one famous incident. When the Prophet Muhammad when he used to deliver the sermon, the Friday sermon, in the mosque in Medina. There is a certain post which he used to lean against. But then he decided it would be better if he stood on a type of pulpit & so they had constructed some steps & the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam would walk up & climb & stand on those steps & he would deliver his sermon from there. & when he walked up & climbed on the steps the post that he used to lean on began, a sound came out of it like a crying sound & the Prophet went & stroke this, the post was crying because the Prophet Muhammad was not leaning on it any more. And this is how the sadness that post felt because the Prophet had left it is amazing thing how this crying noise was heard coming out of the post.

There are many narrations that are reported where animals used to come & complain to the Prophet Muhammad. There's one example when some companions had stolen the eggs from the nest of a bird & this bird was seen flapping round the head of the Prophet Muhammad. & the Prophet said who are those people who have stolen the eggs from the nest of the bird & he told them to return it that his mama is distressed because of whet you have done. Also a camel complained to the Prophet Muhammad that its owner was overloading it, & from this the Prophet Muhammad warned us & told us not even to oppress the animals under our care, & that we should be careful not to overburden them with more than that they are able to take.

There is a famous & beautiful story how Abu Hureira who was one of the companions of the Prophet used to feel so hungry sometimes used to faint at the door of the mosque & people used to tread on him because they thought he was mad. And one day he went to Abu Bakr & he didn't want to tell anyone that he was really almost dying of hunger. So he went & he asked Abu Bakr a question about the Quran, hoping that Abu Bakr would recognise his weakness, but he didn't, & he went to Omar & the same thing happened. But when he went to the Prophet straight away the Prophet Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam said come with me. He told Abu Hureira to come with him & he went to his house and he asked his wives: "What do we have in the house to eat?" They had nothing except a bowl of milk. This is the house of the Messenger of God. In the house of the messenger of God among all his wives all they had to drink between them is a bowl of milk. & he said give it to me. Then he said to Abu Huraira: "Go & get the people of the bench". Now the people of the bench were all the poor people who use to sleep next to the Mosque. And Abu Hureira was thinking: "If I call them there's not going to be enough milk for me. There's hardly enough milk for me let alone to feed all the people of the bench." But then he thought: "I must obey the order of the Prophet Muhammad". So he said: "Ok I would do it because even, because this is what the Prophet said." So he called them. And the Prophet got Abu Hureira to sit on his left. And now in Islam when we pass something we pass it from the right & so the Prophet passed his bowl of milk from the right went around all the people. And every time Aby Hureira was thinking: "There's not going to be enough milk left for me, there's not going to be enough milk left for me." And eventually when the milk got to him he drank from the milk & then the Prophet Muhammad said: "Drink again." And he drank again. And then the third time the Prophet said: "Drink again." And Abu Hureira said: "I can't drink I am full." This is a miracle of course how the small amount of milk was so much to feed so many people. And this is not the only time such an event happened.

Also the Prophet made a miraculous night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem & up from Jerusalem through the heavens where Allah gave him the five prayers & he saw many wonderful signs in the heavens. Now many people when they heard this they actually started to disbelief in Islam. They came to Abu Bakr, they said: "Oh, Abu Bakr, you know what your friend is saying now? He said he went on a journey to Jerusalem in one night & then went up through the heavens. Abu Bakr said: "If that's what the Prophet said he did - it happened because he never lies." Anyway people started saying: "Prove to us that this is the case." So the Prophet Muhammad he described a caravan that he had seen on the way, meaning a caravan, you know, of camels, and a trade caravan. He described this caravan & what it looked like & he also described to the people Jerusalem & what it was like. Two days later the caravan arrived & it was exactly how the Prophet Muhammad may Allah's peace & blessings be upon him had described it. And then when the people asked the caravan they had come from Jerusalem & they described to the people how was Jerusalem & it matched exactly their description of the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam.

Of course another great miracle that was given to the Prophet Muhammad was the splitting of the moon. The pagan Arabs kept asking the Prophet for a sign, kept asking him for a sign, so he, eventually Allah gave him this sign & the moon was split in two, where the two parts of the moon were on each side of the horizon. Of course the pagan Arabs did still not believe in spite of all of that.

Anyway those are just some of the miracles of the Prophet Muhammad which Allah gave to him. And I'm only mentioning them by way of completeness because of course really for those of you who are thinking, for those of you who are thinking deeply out whole series has been about something really miraculous. Those proofs & evidences that we have presented you through which & by which you might know that the Quran is truly what it claims to be - the word of God, that Muhammad may Allah's peace & blessings be upon him is what he claimed to be - the final Messenger of God, of Allah, sent for the benefit (блага) and the mercy of all of mankind. We have discussed matters rational & matters mysterious, we have talked about all sorts of wonderful things, but the question I need to ask you now. What is preventing you from accepting the truth that there's nothing worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad may Allah's peace & blessings be upon him is indeed the final messenger of Allah? Is it fear? Are you afraid? What will the people say if I become Muslim? What will people say about me? What will happen to me at work? What will happen to me at school? What will happen to me at my home with my parents? Is this what is preventing you from accepting the truth? Oh my dear people! You should be more afraid of Allah. You should be more afraid of your Lord. You should be more afraid of the punishment of the hellfire that awaits those people who reject truth.

A fire where Allah will burn the skin & recreate the skin so that people can taste the punishment, a place where water, boiling water will be poured on people's faces that will burn the faces & burn out the insides. This is the punishment saved for those people who reject truth. Is it not more appropriate & worthy that you should be afraid of that? Are you not afraid that Allah will send a punishment upon you that he did sent the punishment upon Noah & his people, about the people of Sodom & Gomorra, the people of Lot, the Prophet Lot? Are you not afraid of the chastisement will come from your Lord in this life? Maybe it is arrogance. Maybe it is pride. Maybe you think that the virtue of belonging to a certain tribe or a certain nation or a certain country. Maybe you think you are so powerful, but Allah is more powerful. Have you not travelled the Earth & see what has happened to those people before? Civilisations, strong & power & might. And what is left of them? Ruins. Where did all their science & their technology & their wisdom & their intelligence lead them, if it did not take them to the belief & the acceptance of the truth, that Allah is the true object of worship, that Muhammad is the true Messenger? Maybe it is my dear people that you are not sincere, you do not care about truth.

You only care about the things of this world. But you should care. You should care about the things of this world because the true happiness of this world is in obeying your Lord & knowing your Lord & worshiping your Lord. How many people of this world leave it & they never taste it, the sweetest thing in life, the sweetest thing in this life is to know Allah & to follow his religion & his guidance that he sent down. All I can say ultimately is that Allah has guided me to Islam & it is the happiest & the best & the most complete way of life a human being could ever live. I just ask you to do one thing. Pray. With your heart, with your soul, with your mind. Ask & pray God in humility, in sincerity. Raise your hands & say & beg: "Oh, God! Guide me to the Truth, open my heart to the truth, if Islam is the truth guide me to it & make me happy with it & help me to follow it & help me to be a sincere Muslim if it is the truth, oh God, Creator of the Heavens & the Earth!" May Allah guide me, you always to the truth, Assalamaleykum Arahmatullahi va Barakatu, may the peace & blessings of Allah be with you always.

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